Category: My paper
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Over recent weeks I’ve been in the papermaking studio creating some new sheets for myself. At the end of June my friend Dinah and myself…
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Having cropped my chosen image (see previous blog post) I cut a piece of lino in reverse. To provide more options I also designed and…
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A couple of weeks ago I was at the paper arts studio with a friend to check and replenish our supply of paper pulp in…
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On recent visits to the papermaking studio I’ve been exploring laminating paper. In papermaking terms this means layering multiple pulled pieces together into a single…
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I’ve long been told that it’s difficult to print intaglio on unsized handmade paper, so it was time to give it a go. I always…
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A couple of weeks ago I posted about making paper pulp from a variety of materials including denim and hessian. After the workshop there was…
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Last week three of us met at Primrose Park to pulp a variety of fibres to be used to create paper at an upcoming workshop…
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I’ve started transforming some of my kozo fibre (general term for the inner bark of mulberry trees) into sheets of paper. I cut some up…
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Over the years I’ve done a range of techniques to apply both natural colour (i.e. colour extracted from nature: leaves, bark, berries, plant stems) and…
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Intaglio lino print on 100gsm handmade recycled mountboard & orange skin paper Me, today, struggling to come to grips with a new printing idea. Nothing…
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A friend gave me some semi-prepared pineapple fibre to make into paper. The fronds of the pineapple plant had been stripped and dried before being…
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Having planted 2 banana trees a few years ago we’ve cut one down and harvested the fibres, as there are others now growing. The tree…
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Having resolved my text printing issue I’ve been able to go ahead and construct my book. It ticks nearly all the boxes re construction, just…
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. . . until you find a solution With 28 images individually printed onto handmade paper (see stage 1 here), collated and ready to be…
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5 days natural dyeing at Sturt summer school was an enjoyable way to start the new year. The course was interesting although I already knew…
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Remember my baby banana trees from way back in October 2016? The left-hand one, living in direct sunlight, grew enormous, had a baby, and was…
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A day of paper-making this week produced some pristine white A4 sheets ready for printing on in a couple of weeks. Using scraps of recycled…
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After my paper-making last week I had a little pulp remaining and decided to de-freeze some banana fibre pulp I made last year and see…
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Yesterday. At home. Computer off. Mobile phone out of sight. Just my husband, my dog Jack and myself. A rare day, determined to keep the…
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Size noun 1. any of various gelatinous or glutinous preparations made from glue, starch, etc., used for filling the pores of cloth, paper, etc., or…
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I love my orange tree. It’s the pride of my garden, closely followed by my mandarin and banana trees. I’m not a great gardener but…
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After my debacle with the mixer a few days ago I regrouped, put my brain in gear, and blended some of my pulp into a…
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Do you know how far the contents of a blender splatter when you’re not paying attention and don’t ensure the lid is on before flicking…
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I boiled up my banana fibre a few weeks ago and last week blended it to a smooth pulp ready to make paper. I decided…
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Whilst having a huge clean-up at Primrose Park recently (the home of Primrose Paper Artists) one of our members came across a couple of bags…
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My friend Judy & I decided to have a go at this. I’ve never done it before, never seen it done and haven’t watched any…
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Following on from my last post, this week I pulped some more of my old print proofs (yes, you’ve guessed it, I have quite a…
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About 18 months ago I shredded some of my print proofs and recycled them into new paper, ready to be printed on again. At that…
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I finally found time to use my teabag pulp (made in February) into A4 sheets of paper. I defrosted the pulp and was surprised at…
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Working with my semi prepared swiss cheese plant (Monstera Deliciosa) fibre that I prepared here and here I started shaping and mixing the fibre with…
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Well, quite a few days have passed whilst I’ve been playing with teabag staining sheets of my own hand-made paper to use for chine collé…
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Yes, I know, teabags are old-hat. Everyone works with them. However, in my view, they are cheap, readily available, durable but lightweight, stain well, and…
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Having started down the route of learning to make paper from plant material (see previous posts re Monstera Deliciosa trials) I spent a day with…
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Yesterday, after another period of boiling my swiss cheese plant fibre I let it cool down in the pot overnight. This morning, out it came…
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Ever since seeing a friend pulping banana leaf & stalk and then later turning it into wonderful textural paper sheets I’ve been wanting to have…
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Even though I’ve been busy elsewhere I still managed to find time to drag my remaining denim pulp out and form some new sheets. Blue,…
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Back at Primrose Park I liberated my pulped-denim vat, gave it a good stir and started making paper. My aim was to produce some quality…
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This was a strenuous, fun, NOISY day! My first experience with transforming an old pair of jeans into paper. The jeans were cut up, all…